Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

History marched to the drums of a clear idea...